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CVE-2025-8774 (GCVE-0-2025-8774)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-09 20:32 – Updated: 2025-08-12 16:04
VLAI?
Title
riscv-boom SonicBOOM L1 Data Cache timing discrepancy
Summary
A vulnerability has been found in riscv-boom SonicBOOM up to 2.2.3 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component L1 Data Cache Handler. The manipulation leads to observable timing discrepancy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Severity ?
Assigner
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| riscv-boom | SonicBOOM |
Affected:
2.2.0
Affected: 2.2.1 Affected: 2.2.2 Affected: 2.2.3 |
Credits
lcyf-fizz (VulDB User)
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